"I don't like him." Charlie grumbled from Bella's doorway as he watched his only child prepare for her date with 'Dr. Edward Cullen'.
Bella did not let Charlie's complaints distract her from the task at hand – finding a shirt that didn't make her cast look ridiculously stupid. Bella's best friend and honorary brother Jacob Black stood next to Charlie in the doorway, his large frame nearly blocking Charlie out entirely.
"Yeah, me either." he agreed.
Bella sighed and threw the shirts she had been holding onto her sky blue bed.
"Neither one of you has met him, how could you possibly hate him?"
The two men stared at the ground awkwardly, "Uh..."
"Exactly. Now get out I have to get ready." Bella swung her pink plaster clad arm towards the two men 'spying' on her and shut the door in their faces as soon as they had moved back enough for her to do so.
She spun on her heel and marched away from her door and back to her rather pitiful closet. Hangers fell and clothing flew as Bella dug through her closet searching for the perfect outfit.
She didn't find it. The closest thing to perfection was a dark blue blouse and a long khaki skirt. Bella still thought that she looked ridiculous but knew that she couldn't do much better with the weapons currently in her arsenal.
Bella dressed quickly, pulling the shirt over her head and squeezing her broken arm through the arms. Even from outside she could still hear Charlie and Jake grumbling in the kitchen and laughed at the image that formed in her head. Charlie sitting at the kitchen table, stabbing at leftover spaghetti and mumbling his displeasure between bites. Jacob rummaging through the fridge and coming back out with an armful of various foods piled almost to his neck.
Bella was just fastening the last button on her skirt (finally) when a movement outside of her window caught her eye. Edward's Volvo.
"Shit. Please stay in the car. Please stay in the car. Please stay in the car." she pleaded, not yet ready for Charlie and Jacob to actually meet Edward.
Alas Edward shut off the engine and got out of his car.
"No!" Bella raced out of her room and down the stairs, narrowly avoided tripping on the last step, dashed to the front door and yanked it open with her good hand only to find that Edward, in all his glory, was leaning against the side of his car, patiently waiting for Bella.
Edward, upon hearing the door open, snapped his head in Bella's direction.
"Are you ready?" he asked.
Behind her in the kitchen, Bella could hear Jacob's ill-disguised laughter, and Charlie's grunt of disapproval.
"Um, yeah. Just let me grab my coat." Bella turned around and made her way around Jacob to the coat tree behind him.
Jacob was still laughing at her and she cuffed him in the back of the head with her cast. It cracked and Jacob only laughed harder, not even bothering to muffle the sounds anymore. Bella swore and clutched her aching arm to her chest.
"Bella!" Charlie gasped "Where did you learn to talk like that?" A/N I know it doesn't really sound like Charlie but my parents say that all the time, okay my Dad but still...
"Dad I'm an English major. If you think 'fuck' is the worst swear that I know you've got another thing coming." Bella growled through gritted teeth.
"Bella?" Edward had ventured inside Bella's house. "Is everything alright?"
"Um yeah. Everything is fine" Bella streched her arm a bet and managed to snag her coat. "Come on, let's go." she said somewhat cheerily and tried to go around Edward's lanky from blocking the doorway, but he gently slipped his arm around her waist and stopped her. Gingerly he grasped her broken arm, and lifted it up to his face for closer examination. When Edward saw what had been done to her cast, he tried to suppress his smirk, but to no avail.
"Bella," he chuckled "What did you do?"
"Huh?"
"Your cast, there's a huge crack running down it. What happened?"
Bella looked down and upon seeing the aforementioned crack in her cast, blushed so hard that it actually hurt.
"Oh. That. Well you see... Jacob was... and then I... and it... cracked?" Bella stammered.
"Who's Jacob?"
Bella gestured to Jacob sitting at the kitchen table scarfing down what had to be the most disgusting thing that Bella had ever seen. Charlie couldn't even bring himself to look at it. Edward however had no problems with Jacob's choice of 'food'.
"Hi Jacob. Care to translate?" Edward asked in that velvety voice of his.
"Mmph." Jacob grunted and swallowed the large mouthful of food that had accumulated in his cheeks. "Sure. Bella ran down the stair. Bella tripped. Bella almost fell on her face. I laughed. Bella clubbed me over the head with her cast. I laughed some more. Bella swore. You showed up."
"Bella's never speaking to douche bag sitting at her kitchen table again." Bella grumbled under her breath.
"Bella!"
"Not you Dad."
Edward cleared his throat. "Well Bella I think that we should probably get you to the hospital and recast you arm."
"Oh. Yeah, we should probably go do that now. Bye guys." Bella gave a little wave and turned around to leave with Edward.
"Bella, wait a minute." Charlie called.
Bella stopped and told Edward that she would be right out, then turned to her father.
"Yeah Dad?"
"I put another bottle of pepper spray in your purse, I know that you lost the last one."
Jacob, who had been chewing an especially large mouthful of food, tried to laugh, but ended up choking on his food. Charlie slapped his back loudly until a large wad of half masticated food flew out of his mouth and onto his plate.
"Thanks." rasped a now red Jacob.
"Bella cringed. "Ew."
"Bye Bells." Jacob said, trying to get her to leave before she started cracking jokes at his expense.
"Fine. But you know I'm just going to get you later." and with that, Bella turned on her hell and quickly snatched up her purse, before exiting the house and getting in the passenger side of Edward's Volvo.
"Pepper spray" Edward chuckled.
"Yes pepper spray, and I'm not afraid to use it on eavesdroppers, ahem EDWARD." she glared at him from across the consul.
"Okay, okay I give, no more eavesdropping on your conversations. You know you'd think that you would go easier on me considering that I'm a first time offender." Edward pointed out.
"I don't know that."
"Well then I guess you'll just have to trust me now won't you?" Edward asked slyly.
"I guess I will."
Edward smirked and started the Volvo, speeding out of Bella's driveway. Bella stared at him with wide eyes.
"Hold on tight..."
OMG I am so sorry that I haven't updated in such a long time! Really there are no excuses for being so late with this chapter, but you know what? Reviews help with writer's block. Like a lot. So once again, I'm asking for 5, yes 5 the magic number, so move your mouse down a little bit and click the button, it's very easy, if my cat can do it than so can you, granted my cat can't type very well but that's beside the point.